Legal Opinion
Saroyan v. William Saroyan Foundation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 18, 1987No. 87 Civ. 1170 (LFM)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MacMAHON, District Judge.
Plaintiffs move to strike defendant’s affirmative defenses as insufficient and for summary judgment, or, if these motions fail, for a protective order, pursuant to Rules 12(f), 56(a) and 26(c), Fed.R.Civ.P.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiffs, Lucy and Aram Saroyan, brought this action for declaratory judgment to determine ownership of the renewal copyright for a play entitled The Cave Dwellers, written by their father, William Saroyan (“Saroyan”) and copyrighted in his name in 1958.
Saroyan authored several hundred works, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and an Academy…
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